RE: The Time Deniers and the idea of time as a "dimension"

[Jesse Mazer]

chris peck wrote:


Thats why I make an appeal to something more intuitive. The A List as 
concieved by McTaggart may lead to incoherence, but nevertheless, we are 
embedded in the present. To meddle with its order is to conjure up paradox. 
Reality can not be like that.

But are you just expressing a personal intuition there, or do you think some 
actual logical paradox arises from the block time concept? Also, do you 
agree that to define a notion of a single universal present, we must 
privelege one relativistic reference frame over all others? If so, do you 
think this reference frame is only "metaphysically" preferred while agreeing 
with relativity's claim that no reference frame can be picked out as special 
by any actual physical experiment, or do you hope for a new theory of 
physics which actually picks out a physically preferred reference frame?

Jesse